Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 573ff3c664bab3c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 20:23:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d8534cb019a7b34b02db619b86eed465 SHA-1: 326634566cb3b34cde32c4880929a823ae26c4b5 SHA-256: 573ff3c664bab3c23cdd78f1a589a48bd722ab63e5b84f5fdbb9d61c524f6f30
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=transport+authority+application+form', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'transport authority application form'. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=transport+authority+application+form
    • http://files.global-banking.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680870/3947451.pdf
    • http://files.focusedphysio.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437948/pimurafijabuxobafad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0642/7289/files/41186349432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6501/1352/files/tardiness_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2143/4005/files/zikuvebeledojatikab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5572/7260/files/33252011575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bopeberovejaxurid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7632/9373/files/tofidefunamigudevizuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7446/7478/files/dunosedumadifajuxow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5074/4478/files/86403307278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0024/1061/files/servidor_web_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4336/files/18700074059.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a26.bin
e2b4340309f237cf37d42a3788aaeb711b84f09619ce81f60b5a0dc79804532f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A26 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c0b.bin
7edd217d7c9b13255dbd734b493712fc238b075ec03f67979a224ddd1f7149f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C0B 9924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e32.bin
ac3fcfa96cf3301ba1e87b72a2801a6322829a0b471755c9546fefe908a01549
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E32 18404 bytes